Suicide of the West Quotes

“Liberalism is the ideology of Western suicide. When once this initial and final sentence is understood, everything about liberalism - the beliefs, emotions and values associated with it, the nature of its enchantment, its practical record, its future - falls into place.”
― James Burnham, Suicide of the West: An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism

“Americans have not yet learned the tragic lesson that the most powerful cannot be loved—hated, envied, feared, obeyed, respected, even honored perhaps, but not loved. —James Burnham, Containment or Liberation?”
― James Burnham, Suicide of the West: An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism

“...we may assert that liberalism believes man's nature to be not fixed but changing, with an unlimited or at any rate indefinitely large potential for positive (good, favorable, progressive) development. This may be contrasted with the traditional belief, expressed in the theological doctrines of Original Sin and the real existence of the Devil, that human nature had a permanent, unchanging essence, and that man is partly corrupt as well as limited in his potential. "Man, according to liberalism, is born ignorant, not wicked," declares Professor J. Salwyn Schapiro, writing as a liberal on liberalism.”
― James Burnham, Suicide of the West: An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism